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Wave of redundancies could overwhelm struggling employment tribunal system
Delays in the criminal and civil courts have been widely publicised, but the employment tribunal system is facing very similar pressures. The backlog of claims has been growing steadily since 2015 and totalled more than 45,000 cases at the end of August.
What kind of price increases do you have on the horizon?
When the Directors of Select Legal Systems, Mike Craven and Steve Dixon first established the business in 1993, they made 4 key promises to clients and prospective clients.
Risk to Coastal Properties Now Assessed in Terrafirma’s Ground Report
If you’ve ever transacted on coastal properties, you may be aware that no conveyancing search report exists that assesses the risk to property and land from coastal hazards. The reason for this, is that until now, it was not possible to assess the risk due to a lack of suitable property-specific coastal hazard data.
SearchFlow responds to the Halifax House Price Index, September 2020
The Halifax House Price Index echoes the data presented by the Bank of England at the start of the month that shows mortgage lending soaring by 66% between June and July, with over 66,000 residential mortgages approved.
Casedo announces release of enhanced Table of Contents tool
Casedo, the legal software that simplifies document analysis, research and organisation, has announced the release of a new version of its legal analysis platform.
Annual charity will-writing scheme needs your expertise
Will Aid is a national will-writing campaign that takes place every November. It is designed to raise vital funds for the life-changing work of nine of the UK’s leading charities.
Search Acumen launches Data Snapshot
Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider, has launched a new report aimed at helping real estate lawyers to identify risk early on, progress transactions more efficiently and better manage the sharp rise in demand in the UK’s property market.
New Management Team at UK’s Leading Data Breach Solicitors, Hayes Connor
Arriving on the scene in 2018, Hayes are now the UK’s leading data breach specialists. With a team of 15 lawyers and assistants, and a wealth of collective experience, the team are paving the way in all things data breach, cyber security, and online fraud.
Deloitte UK partners with Nuix to offer hosted discovery
New service combines Deloitte’s industry experience and technical expertise with Nuix Discover® review, analytics and artificial intelligence.
When virtual becomes reality
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Perhaps necessity is also the mother of transition? Because undoubtedly, over the past few turbulent months, many hundreds of thousands of legal personnel have transitioned, virtually overnight, and entirely out of necessity, to the status of “home worker”.
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
